Steve Irwin Quotes

"I have a message for my fans. Whatever you want to do in this world, it is achievable. The most important thing that I've found, that perhaps you could use, is be passionate and enthusiastic in the direction that you choose in life, and you'll be a winner."
- Steve Irwin - Crikey! What an Adventure on Animal Planet, 2007

"You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it'll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it's not even funny."
- Steve Irwin

"I've got the Terri factor, mate. I've got this wife that is so incredibly intelligent and strong that I reckon, between us, we'll get through it."
- Steve Irwin - "Enough Rope With Andrew Denton" on ABC, 2003

"I'm very embarrassing to look at. You know why? Here's why I'm embarrassing: 'cause there's a little bit of me in everybody....I'm like the boy that never grew up. I'm very, very passionate about what I do. I mean, I love what I do....and people are like, "God, give this guy a valium or something, you know? Can't he have a bad day?"
- Steve Irwin - "Enough Rope With Andrew Denton" on ABC, 2003

"I have a deep-seated respect for parrots. As gifted as I am with all other wildlife, parrots have this uncanny desire to kill me. I'm not sure why, but they're like my kryptonite!"
- Steve Irwin - "Enough Rope With Andrew Denton" on ABC, 2003

"You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other."
- Steve Irwin

"Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing."
- Steve Irwin

"Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling."
- Steve Irwin

"Where I live if someone gives you a hug it's from the heart."
- Steve Irwin

"When I talk to the camera, mate, it's not like I'm talking to the camera, I'm talking to you because I want to whip you around and plunk you right there with me."
- Steve Irwin

"We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been shot historically, which doesn't work for us."
- Steve Irwin

"There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then."
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"The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am."
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"The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue."
- Steve Irwin

"That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else."
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"Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know."
- Steve Irwin

"So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live."
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"So now what happens is the cameras follow me around and capture exactly what I've been doing since I was a boy. Only now we have a team of, you know, like 73 of us, and it's gone beyond that."
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"So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes."
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"Snakes are just very instinctive to me. I've been playing with snakes since before I could walk. It doesn't matter where or what it is, from the biggest to the most venomous."
- Steve Irwin

"Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along."
- Steve Irwin

"Sharks, I've been self-trained as well, and crocodiles, naturally. I've been catching them since I was nine. No problem."
- Steve Irwin

"See, I've always seen Jacques Cousteau as a hero, mate. He's a legend - like my dad, just a legend. And so what he did for conservation in the '60s through the '70s was just phenomenal."
- Steve Irwin

"Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent."
- Steve Irwin

"No, snakes are no problem. I'd go to any country, anywhere, any snakes, not a problem."
- Steve Irwin

"No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence."
- Steve Irwin

"My field is with apex predators, hence your crocodiles, your snakes, your spiders."
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"My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest."
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"My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife."
- Steve Irwin

"I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites, how to get in around venomous anything."
- Steve Irwin - Online interview at Scientific American online (sciam.com) (26 March 2001)

"I'm a proud Australian, a very, very proud Australian."
- Steve Irwin

"I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we all get to eat. Everyone has to compromise."
- Steve Irwin

"I mean, these are all just little pink bits here (pointing at his arm) and are just curing up now. I've been recently filming a nine-and-a-half-foot female crocodile I had to catch. Oh, man, she bit me up! That was a mistake."
- Steve Irwin

"I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it."
- Steve Irwin

"I get called an adrenaline junkie every other minute, and I'm just fine with that."
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"I bled a lot. I got hit across the face. We couldn't film for seven days. I got hit, whacked, underwater, across the face. I finished the shot, got into the boat and blood started coming out."
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"I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message."
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"I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment."
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"I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction."
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"I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet."
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"Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate."
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"Crikey means gee whizz, wow!"
- Steve Irwin - "Enough Rope With Andrew Denton" on ABC, 2004

"Crikey, mate. You're far safer dealing with crocodiles and western diamondback rattlesnakes than the executives and the producers and all those sharks in the big MGM building."
- Steve Irwin - "Enough Rope With Andrew Denton" on ABC, 2004

"Born a wildlife warrior, die a wildlife warrior."
- Steve Irwin - Radio interview on Radio Alice (KLLC 97.3)

"Because when they strike it can be that quick that if they're within range, you're dead, you're dead in your tracks. And his head weighs more than my body so it's WHACK!"
- Steve Irwin - Radio interview on Radio Alice (KLLC 97.3)

"I think my path would have always gone back to or delivered me to wildlife. I think wildlife is just like a magnet, and it's something that I can't help."
- Steve Irwin - Biography for Steven Irwin (II)

"If something ever happens to me, people are gonna be like 'we knew a croc would get him!"
- Steve Irwin - Biography for Steven Irwin (II)